The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the invention of English literature

Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works.Meer lezen...

The Arcadia in Print in the Twentieth Century --
The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia as a Symptom --
Sidney and the Literary System --
The New Criticism, the New Bibliography, and the Invention of English Literature --
1.Feigning History in the 1590 Arcadia --
How the 1590 Arcadia Advanced Textual Criticism --
Social and Political Pressures Working on the 1590 Text --
Staging the Page of Poesie Historicall --
Grevillean Skepticism, Arcadian Exempla, and "Glowe-Worme Lights" to Govern Princes --
Two Grounds of All this Storie in the 1590 Arcadia --
The Modes of the 1590 Quarto --
Time, Decay, and the Immanent --
Book One: The Distuptions of Eros and Corruptions of Chivalry --
The Symmetries of the First Eclogues --
Book Two: The Heroic Immanent in the Pastoral --
The Eruption of Bathos in the Second Eclogues --
The Historiographical Mode and the Immanence of Passions in Book Three --
2.The Performance of Astrophel and Stella in the 1591 Quartos --
Why Study the 1591 Quartos? --
Who Leaked Astrophel and Stella? --
Interlude: Shuttling Astrophel and Stella --
Astrophil's Stolen Kiss in Ql --
The Poetic Argument of the Songs in the 1591 Quartos: The Matter --
The Poetic Argument of the Songs in the 1591 Quartos: The Manner --
Succeeding Astrophel and Stella: Daniel's Delia, Lodge's Phillis, and Fletcher's Licia --
Delia and the Broken Crown: A Fable of Succession and Decay --
Echoes of Fame in Phillis --
Giles Fletcher, Sidney's Other Heir --
3.The One and the Many: The Sidney-Name in Print, 1590 --
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Nationalistic or Opportunistic? Essex, Spenser, and the Sidney Name Before 1593 --
William Ponsonby, Abraham Fraunce, and the Construction of the Insider Ethos --
Spenser, Harvey, and Nashe: The Art of Deflation --
Nicholas Breton, Thomas Nashe, and the Countess of Pembroke's Love --
Fraunce Redux: Satirizing the Harvey-Nashe Quarrel --
Sir John Harington and the Case for Insider Truthiness --
The Need to Reclaim Arcadia --
4. Mary Sidney Herbert and the Reinvention of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia --
The Fabrication of the Sidney Family Discourse --
The Discourse of Life and Death --
The Tragedie of Antonie --
The 1593 Edition of the Arcadia --
Aristocratic Friendship and the Virtue of the Heroic Romance --
The Political Analysis of Faction --
The Prudence of Euarchus --
Humanity and Judgment, Pity and Monstrosity in the Trial Scene --
5.Organic and Artificial Wholes in the Invention of English Literature: Or, the Ontological Status of the 1598 folio of The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia --
The Lady of May as Emblem for Sir Philip Sidney --
The Certain in the Certaine Sonets --
The Authentication Effect of Astrophel and Stella in the 1598 Folio --
Publishing An Apologie for Poetrie: 1595 --
The Prominence of The Defence of Poesie: A Little Critical Genealgy --
The Place and Function of the Defence in the 1598 Folio --
The Modernist Myth of Organic Elizabethan Culture.

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'Davis has written a fascinating, illuminating book. Rather than focusing on a single text supposedly representing Sir Philip Sidney's 'true' intentions, Davis examines the thematics of each individual issue of the Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella. Davis then examines how Elizabethan sonneteers and polemicists used Sidney's name for their own purposes. Brilliantly combining literary history, textual scholarship, metrical analysis, and intense close-reading, Davis has irrevocably changed Sidney scholarship as well as providing a model for how 'un-editing' early modern texts provides fascinating, revisionary criticism.' - Peter C. Herman, Professor, San Diego State University and author of Destablizing Milton: 'Paradise Lost' and the Poetics of Incertitude'Davis's new book makes a significant contribution to both the textual history and the reception history of Sir Philip Sidney and the Sidney circle through carefully and intelligently reconstructing the contexts in which the poet's writings first made it into print. Davis not only offers valuable and original insights into the place of Sidney's publications within early modern book history, but he reveals the true extent of what amounted to a competition to represent Sidneyfollowing his death, bothby his immediate literary heirs and by modern critics and commentators. This book leads us to revise how we read, interpret and conceive of Sidney's printed works.' - Matthew Woodcock, Senior Lecturerin Literature, University of East Anglia and author of Fairy in the Faerie Queene: Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making'A learned and provocative study of the contexts and textual states of the works associated with Sidney and the idea of 'Sidney.' Davis's powerful reading sets the Arcadia in all its forms within an unfolding succession of literary, commercial, and political worlds.' - Jason Powell, Assistant Professor of English, Saint Joseph's UniversityMeer lezen...

A wide-ranging reappraisal of a crucial period in English literary history

This book reappraises a significant part of the literary scene of 1590s England: arguably the most important decade in English literary history, let alone in the early modern period in England. Scholars of Mary Sidney (Countess of Pembroke), Spenser, Nashe, Fulke Greville, Sir John Harington,...Meer lezen...

This book reappraises a significant part of the literary scene of 1590s England: arguably the most important decade in English literary history, let alone in the early modern period in England. Scholars of Mary Sidney (Countess of Pembroke), Spenser, Nashe, Fulke Greville, Sir John Harington, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Lodge, early modern poetry, the literary canon and canon-formation, the history of books, and textual criticism will find useful material here.